|
4/4
|
90%
|
Blow Out (1981) |
"
Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 26, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Blame It on Fidel (La Faute a Fidel) (2006) |
"
Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 27, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
33%
|
Drama/Mex (2006) |
"
At its heart, Drama/Mex is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 28, 2007
|
|
3.5/4
|
40%
|
Snake Eyes (1998) |
"
Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2006
|
|
3.5/4
|
23%
|
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) |
"
De Palma's characterizations may not have the subtle tongue-in-cheek wit of Tom Wolfe, but his version of the story is both more comic and angrier for it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
Putty Hill (2011) |
"
As with the nod to skating culture, Porterfield reclaims cheesy pop-culture detritus to illuminate his characters' need for escape."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 17, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Refusenik (2008) |
"
Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
|
|
|
100%
|
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) (1956) |
"
Since Janus's barebones release of The Red Ballon comes with the 34-minute film and nothing more, highbrow parents might have to find other ways to entertain their kids for the day. Like, you know, Dora the Explorer."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) (1956) |
"
The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 26, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
61%
|
Dans Paris (Inside Paris) (2007) |
"
Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 10, 2007
|
|
|
81%
|
Pretty in Pink (1986) |
"
From Molly Ringwald's pretty-in-pink mouth to the political banter of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Jon Hughes's frustrated sarcasm branded a generation. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
81%
|
Pretty in Pink (1986) |
"
John Hughes was born in 1950 but connected deeply with the next generation's cultural brooding."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 9, 2006
|
|
|
86%
|
Romancing the Stone (1984) |
"
His name is Jack T. Colton. What's the "T" stand for? "Trustworthy.""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
75%
|
The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006) |
"
Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Queer Duck - The Movie (2006) |
"
Reiss takes advantage of the contemporary rift between '70s-born freewheeling gay lifestyle and modern gay domesticity."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2006
|
|
3/4
|
——
|
Queer Duck - The Movie (2006) |
"
"If you're a sissy, or just a big prissy, don't get pissy, missy. It's Gay Day at Happy Land!""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 16, 2006
|
|
|
88%
|
Delicatessen (1991) |
"
With Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2006
|
|
2.5/4
|
59%
|
Jig (2011) |
"
The documentary Jig presents a world that approaches child pageantry in its self-contained weirdness."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 15, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Beautiful Boy (2011) |
"
Its unmoored, oxygen-deprived atmosphere reflects the current mood of grief literature, inspired by Joan Didion's groundbreaking The Year of Magical Thinking."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 3, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
79%
|
Smash His Camera (2010) |
"
The film refuses to pass judgment on the controversial photog, letting him do his own thing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 30, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
98%
|
Surfwise (2007) |
"
Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
89%
|
Fighting for Life (2008) |
"
Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 7, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
94%
|
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"
Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 31, 2007
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Hamilton (2006) |
"
Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
14%
|
Hard Breakers (2011) |
"
The film might be the closest approximation to the gender inverse of an Apatow flick."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 19, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
55%
|
The Conspirator (2011) |
"
The Conspirator is an über-genre movie, a hybrid of two classic Hollywood modes--the historical reenactment and the courtroom drama--that tries to satisfy the demands of both."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
28%
|
Life as We Know It (2010) |
"
It's easy to become cynical about a certain brand of funny-sad familial comedies like Life as We Know It."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
63%
|
Extract (2009) |
"
Mike Judge doesn't sugarcoat his characters as anything more than slightly contemptible fratboys, a quality that makes his brand of comedy alternately liberating and frustrating."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
The September Issue (2009) |
"
For the past year or so, Wintour's been on the media warpath to win back her image, and Cutler seems happy to oblige."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
60%
|
Casi Divas (Road to Fame) (2008) |
"
Full of enthusiasm but short on wit or self-awareness, Casi Divas is pretty weak as satire."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
61%
|
Eleven Minutes (2008) |
"
A movie for Project Runway obsessives only."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
14%
|
The Love Guru (2008) |
"
Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 19, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
Meduzot (Jellyfish) (2008) |
"
Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 25, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
56%
|
Bab'Aziz - The Prince That Contemplated His Soul (2008) |
"
As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Liberty Kid (2008) |
"
Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 10, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004) |
"
The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures () |
"
True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"
Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 25, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
72%
|
Tekon Kinkurîto (Tekkonkinkreet) (2007) |
"
The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 5, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
86%
|
Romancing the Stone (1984) |
"
The message is clear: Love and protection comes with a white face and a big, black gun. His name is Michael Douglas."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 1, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
88%
|
Delicatessen (1991) |
"
Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2006
|
|
2/4
|
5%
|
Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) |
"
Shoddy screenwriting devices simply pass the time for Whitney to sling hillbilly-isms at admirers of his stand-up comedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2006
|
|
1.5/4
|
67%
|
Good Neighbors (2011) |
"
The tone of the film is off-key from the beginning, a fact that's not helped by the presence of Speedman, onetime Felicity heartthrob."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Spork (2011) |
"
Never feels authentically out-there because it still more or less toes the line of every teen comedy from Welcome to the Dollhouse to Mean Girls."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
0%
|
Dressed (2011) |
"
As movies about the fashion world go, Dressed isn't very fabulous. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 3, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Gulliver's Travels (2010) |
"
Marketed as a hip, modern adaptation of a classic, the movie feels more like a Christmastime TV special projected in 3D."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo (2010) |
"
Throughout, the film circles around the sociological significance of the rodeo."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 15, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
35%
|
Lottery Ticket (2010) |
"
Essentially Trading Places by way of Next Friday, Lottery Ticket never rises above formula."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
21%
|
Flakes (2007) |
"
One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes wants so badly to be hip."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
65%
|
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"
The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2007
|
63%
——
97%
